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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
3
Sunshine brings rising temperatures as Golden Rule Day sale looms a week away and a taxpayers meeting is set at the municipal building tonight. Reports show Ai-Soofized Gas & Electric System posted a net output up 12 percent over the same week last year amid various local notices.
Harrisburg reports heavy snows and March floods slowed the South Penn super highway study along the old Penn Railroad bed from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg. Engineers mapped 79 miles, staked lines, and gathered topography as 56 workers split the 209 miles into 21 sections, with more crews to follow this spring.
William Lightover reports a smooth spring run on the Sandy River as the finny tribe migrates upriver. He fell into the water and emerged with pockets full of fish, describing an easy fishing spell and a lively local mood.
Ethel Scadding, 16, writes from Wisconsin after her father Alfred Scadding is rescued from a Moose River gold mine cave in. She recalls fear, nightly prayers, and relief at his survival, plans to visit and to write a long letter expressing love, with telegraphs readied for his return.
Northwest area including Erie County featured in new maps prepared by the Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey. Secretary Thomas A Logue says a brief paper will summarize up to date developments in deep sand exploration. Maps cover northwestern areas Erie Crawford western Warren and northwestern Forest counties with publication pending. Field work will extend eastward into northern Edin and McDean counties.
April 23. The British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is closely following experiments by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture on potato wart eradication. A letter to RH Bell director of the Bureau of Plant Industry notes George H. Pethybridge was sent by the British government to study this plant disease and its causes.
Employment conditions in the ice WPA district covering six northwestern Pennsylvania counties have improved in recent weeks says district supervisor Bernard Ochran. He notes payroll cuts are underway with about 9,000 total WPA workers to be dropped by early May, about 4,700 by that time as divisions report many workers finding farm or similar work.
Dr C F Bunnett assisted the delivery of twin colts at the Andrew Miller farm on the county road southwest of Corry early this week. One is a stud and the other a mare colt. Both animals are thriving and show promise of becoming a lively pair. Twin foals are rare in this area and have drawn attention from local horse breeders.
A selected high school debate team will attend the district finals at Allegheny College Meadville Saturday afternoon. The local team members Jedune Titus MacBain Seurn Kathryn Hubert with Mack Johnson as alternate. The program lists multiple debating leagues and venues with faculty members presenting awards.
A Corry elder recalls 1876 roads as a bay with his father's family traveled to a Selota road farm. G W Munn and brother Clarence walked from Gerry to David Cooks farm near Summit. Their father bought a horse and two cows and moved to the farm.
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